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post Mar 9 2010, 4:24 PM
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High school issued laptops to spy on students in home, without consent to parents either.

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Eugene Volokh • February 18, 2010 2:33 pm

According to the Complaint in Robbins v. Lower Merion School District (filed a week ago),

2. Unbeknownst to [high school students and their parents], and without their authorization, [high school officials] have been spying on the activities of [the students] by Defendants’ indiscrimina[te] use of and ability to remotely activate the webcams incorporated into each laptop issued to students by the School District....

23.... Plaintiffs were for the first time informed of [this] capability and practice by the School District when ... an Assistant Principal at Harriton High School[] informed minor Plaintiff that the School District was of the belief that minor Plaintiff was engaged in improper behavior in his home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in minor Plaintiff’s personal laptop issued by the School District....

24. [The minor Plaintiff’s father] thereafter verified, through [the Assistant Principal], that the School District in fact has the ability to remotely activate the webcam contained in a students’ personal laptop computer issued by the School District at any time it chose and to view and capture whatever images were in front of the webcam, all without the knowledge, permission or authorization of any persons then and there using the laptop computer.


This is mind-boggling in scale.

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post Mar 9 2010, 5:28 PM
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Saw this a while back, I'm pretty certain that whatever idiot in the Department Of Education ok'd it is now going to get a hefty lawsuit filed against them.
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post Mar 9 2010, 9:43 PM
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A friend of mine lives in the area. From what he says, all these people have more money than goddamned sense and the school district is run by incompetent and perverted Administrators. I'll give you one example. One of the previous principles was married to an IKEA executive. Every teacher hired during his tenure was female, blond, blue eyed, skinny, and had a penchant for mini-skirts.

There's also a huge civil rights suit going on involving this SD. In short: Anywhere else this would be shocking. Here, it barely ranks.

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thats just plain and simple wrong!
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